Steps to creating my illustration

These are the steps that i took to creating this illustration.

Step1: First i drew the outlines on my ice bergs using the pen tool.

Step2: Next i used the gradient tool to color the ice bergs.

Step3: I then created to rectangles for the ocean and the sky. I used different gradient colors and styles for both of them.

Step4: Next i duplicated the shapes of the ice bergs and resized it accordingly to become the shadow for the ice bergs. I then used the gradient tool to color it.

Step5: Next i added some glaciers on top of the ice bergs so that it looked big.

Step6: Lastly, i created clouds using the pencil tool.

sketches

These are my sketches for assignment 2. My illustration are created from these sketches.

Ideation of assignment 2

Since i did a symbol on the area of ice caps melting for my first assignment, my illustration for assignment 2 has to be based on the same area for assignment 1. These photos that i have collected for Google Image show where my ideas for my illustration came from.

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 – An Illustration of the Area (15%)

The purpose of this assignment is to illustrate the area of your choice. Based on the area you have selected, you are to create an illustration of the area.
For example:
If the area you chose was deforestation, you are to illustrate / draw a tree or trees in Illustrator.
If the area you chose was melting of the ice caps, you are to illustrate / draw the ice cap or ice berg in Illustrator
If the area you chose was to save the polar bear, you are to illustrate /draw a polar bear or polar bears in Illustrator.
The purpose of doing so is to follow the area of choice that you previously did in your symbol. In other words, please follow the area you did in your symbol. The image / illustration that you create can be used as part of the poster that you will create in Assignment 3.

Requirements

(1) Based on the research of the area of choice, ideation must first be drawn. In other words, you are to draw your idea on paper first prior doing it in Illustrator. The process of ideation to final output must be documented on a blog or web log that all students must create.

(2) Using the symbol that you design in assignment one, the illustration is based on the area of your choice. Therefore, the symbol MUST be placed within the illustration to “symbolize” the awareness of global warming. You can place them at one corner of the image (Bottom right-hand corner of the image.)

(3) Size of the illustration – A3

(4) Printout the illustration and mount it on an A3 mounting board.

(5) The other side of the mounting board must contain a write-up page. The write-up page must contain - the title of the illustration and the area of global warming of your choice.

(6) Include your name, ID and group at the back of the mounting board.
Documentation to be done on the BLOG (5%)
(1) Include the RESEARCH you have done on the area of choice (add the web links). (2) Include the idea of the illustration. You must include the references you used in the blog. (3) Include designs, sketches, references or images that you use to create your symbols, tools that you used and the final output. (4) Tools used. You are to EXPLAIN the tools that you used and learnt from the tutorials and EXPLORED.

Submission:

(1) Students must submit the Illustrator file and title it studID_Illustration.ai. Date of Submission: Week 9 in tutorials to tutorial Group Leader.
(2) The student name, ID and Group must also appear inside the document. Marks will be deducted if you do not enter your name, group and ID properly. Marks will also be deducted if there are no name, ID and group.
(3) All class submission guidelines must be followed. Not following these requirements will mean a reduction in your marks in this exercise.
(4) Any copying or similar illustration may result in the students getting an automatic "0" mark. NO PLAGERISM

Criteria for marking:

(1) The concept itself and the proof of concept which are the sketches, references and research.
(2) Use of the tools - the proper and creative use of the tools
(3) Design of the illustration and the story it tells.
(4) Write-up and documentation must be in proper English.
(5) Detail description of the process.
(6) Quality of the printing and display.

Assignment completed!

A symbol to show what we (humans) are doing to our beloved home, Earth. Its time we realize that we have to make changes before it’s too late. Global warming is not something new to us. The rising temperature of Earth is causing animals to extinct, sea levels to raise, forest being wiped out and ice caps in the Arctic to melt.

As my symbol for my computer graphics assignment, I chose a shape of an ice cap melting. This is to show that, we are causing this to happen. Ice caps in the Arctic are melting due to humans doing.
I also placed large flames of fire to show that the rise of temperature due to Global warming.

For the colors, I made the ice cap to be in a mixed of red and white to show that the ice caps are melting because of the heat from Global warming. For the flame I colored it with a mixture of red and orange to represent how angry I feel. As for the melting part, I picked a mixture of blue and dark green to show that melting ice caps are causing sea levels to rise and seas being polluted.

Mainly, my symbol represents my feeling towards what is happening in the Arctic.

Steps of creating my symbol

The symbol i created was designed using Adobe Illustrator CS2.

Step 1: The ice cap was created using the pencil tool and the line segment tool.

Step 2: Next i created the melting part using the pencil tool.

Step 3: Flames were created using the arc tool.

Step 4: Next, i colored the shapes using the gradient tool

Step 5: A shadow effect of the flame was added by duplicating the original path of the flame. I filled the duplicated flame with white and set the opacity to 50%. I then resized the shape to make it 85% smaller so that it fitted inside the original flame.

Step 6: Next i added some white bubble shapes to the melting part to give a gel effect.

Step 7: Finally, i created an inner shape in white of the ice cap and set the opacity to 50%.

sketches

These are my sketches. My idea for my symbols are based on these sketches.

A simple doodle i did in Paint.

Melting ice caps

The assignment is i have to create a symbol based on the theme of 'Global warming'.
So i chose something to do with melting polar ice caps. as my design for my symbol of awareness.
But why melting polar ice caps?? So you ask. Its because i like polar bears =)
And based on my research, polar bears are finding a hard time surviving.
Polar bears surfer from starvation due to habitat loss. They hunt seals from a platform of sea ice. The rising temperatures cause the sea ice to melt earlier in the year, driving the bears to shore before they have built sufficient fat reserves to survive the period of scarce food.
Besides that, global warming is the cause of rising sea levels. Rising temperatures of the Earth causes the ice caps in the Arctics to melt.


These are some references for my Symbol





Till next time.
Later

A little something about global warming.

Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, and its projected continuation. Some of the causes are deforestation, melting ice caps, greenhouse effect, the use of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and the thinning of the ozone layer. In result, the temperature of the earth increases. The term "global warming" refers to the warming in recent decades and its projected continuation, and implies a human influence.

The Earth's climate changes in response to external forcing, including variations in its orbit around the Sun (orbital forcing), changes in solar luminosity, volcanic eruptions, and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. The detailed causes of the recent warming remain an active field of research, but the scientific consensus is that the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases due to human activity caused most of the warming observed since the start of the industrial era.
This attribution is clearest for the most recent 50 years, for which the most detailed data are available. Some other hypotheses departing from the consensus view have been suggested to explain most of the temperature increase. One such hypothesis proposes that warming may be the result of variations in solar activity.

Sources :
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/global_warming/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Assignment 1

TASK

You are to select an ASPECT or AN EFFECT of global warming. In other words, you are to research the meaning of global warming and choose one area to focus on such as weather change, melting of the ice caps, de-forestation, rising prices and so on.

You will have to do research on the GLOBAL WARMING to understand and to select an area of choice.

Assignment 1 – SYMBOL OF AWARENESS (10%)

You are to design, using Illustrator, a symbol based on the area of global warming that you have chosen. This symbol is to be used to create an awareness of the area of your choice. For example, a symbol could be designed to represent the polar ice caps melting or a tree-like symbol to represent de-forestation.

Requirements

1) Ideation must first be drawn. In other words, you are to draw your idea on paper first prior doing it in Illustrator. The process of ideation to final output must be documented on a blog or web log that all students must create.

2) The symbols should be made out of shapes only. It should be based on your area of choice about Global Warming. No text, no human or animals symbols. Just plain shapes.

3) The symbol should be in colour. The colour should have meaning to the symbol.

4) The shapes should be a metaphor of the area you have chosen. For example, if you like cars, it could be used to represent rising fuel prices.

5) Size of the symbol – A3

6) Printout the symbol and mount it on an A3 mounting board.

7) The other side of the mounting board must contain a write-up page. The write-up page must contain - the title of the symbol, the meaning of the symbol, its metaphor, the meaning of the shape of the symbol and the meaning of the colour of the symbol and the relation to the area of global warming of your choice.

8) Include your name, ID and group at the back of the mounting board.

Documentation to be done on the BLOG

(1) Include the RESEARCH you have done on the area of choice (add the web links).
(2) Include the idea of the symbol, its meaning and so on. This could be similar to the write-up.
(3) Include designs, sketches, references or images that you use to create your symbols, tools that you used and the final output.
(4) Tools used. You are to EXPLAIN the tools that you used and learnt from the tutorials and EXPLORED.

Submission:

1. Students must submit the Illustrator file and title it studID_symbol a. Date of Submission: Week 6 in tutorials to tutorial Group Leader.
2. The student name, ID and Group must also appear inside the document. Marks will be deducted if you do not enter your name, group and ID properly. Marks will also be deducted if there are no name, ID and group.
3. All class submission guidelines must be followed. Not following these requirements will mean a reduction in your marks in this exercise.
4. Any copying or similar symbols may result in the students getting an automatic "0" mark.

Criteria for marking:

(1) The concept itself and the proof of concept which are the sketches, references and research.
(2) Design of the symbol and symbol write-up.
(3) Use of the tools - the proper and creative use of the tools
(4) Write-up and documentation must be in proper English.
(5) Detail description of the process.
(6) Quality of the printing and display.